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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Dazed and Confused: Increasingly Desperate Trump Seeks Attention as Harris Forges Ahead

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki breaks down how Donald Trump is trying to distract voters with hateful rhetoric while Kamala Harris continues to rise in polls. Senator Raphael Warnock joins Jen for a wide-ranging conversation, covering Georgia's election board voting to require ballots to be hand-counted, as well as the not safe for work revelations about the Republican candidate for Governor in North Carolina, self-described "Black Nazi," Mark Robinson. Next, Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, joins to discuss her new book, her uncle's apparent mental decline and his misogynistic comments about Kamala Harris. Later, in light of Mark Robinson's racist comments on a porn site, Jen explores his history of bigoted rhetoric and explains why this type of scandal is par for the course in the GOP. Anderson Clayton, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, also joins the show to discuss how Robinson's scandal may affect both the presidential race and down-ballot races in the state. Finally, Jen is joined by Quentin Fulks, Harris-Walz campaign principal deputy campaign manager, to discuss the likelihood of a second debate between Trump and Harris, voter suppression, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Of all the crazy weeks in this campaign, and there have been many, this one has to be right up near the top.

0:06.7

I mean, Donald Trump was at a rally yesterday in North Carolina without the Republican nominee for governor, who he once called MLK on steroids.

0:15.2

Why? Because the world learned this week that Mark Robinson called himself a black Nazi on a porn site. Can't make it up

0:22.0

sometimes. Senator Raphael Warnock is the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the real

0:27.1

Martin Luther King Jr. preached, and he's coming up first. Also today, Mary Trump joins me to talk

0:32.8

about all the ways in which Kamala Harris is completely rattling her uncle. And on that point, the VP accepts an invitation for another debate.

0:41.1

But Trump says it's too late.

0:43.2

The Harris Walls campaign's deputy campaign manager, Quentin Foges, joins me with his response

0:47.7

to that very chicken response. Okay. I think it's safe to say that Donald Trump would desperately like us and all of you sitting at home to be thinking about certain things and talking about certain things.

1:08.7

Like, say, the crazy conspiracies about the Haitian

1:11.6

community in Springfield, Ohio, or his blatantly anti-Semitic remarks about Jewish voters, seeing it'll

1:18.0

be their fault if he loses. He wants all of us to focus on the circus, and both the ringmaster

1:25.0

and his running mate brought that very circus to their rallies just yesterday.

1:30.3

You see it how bad it's getting when you look at what's going on with the migrants attacking villages and cities all throughout the Midwest in particular right now, but it's all over.

1:40.1

Go to Springfield, Ohio, which has been overwhelmed by 20,000 Haitian immigrants. Go to any community that's been overwhelmed by Kamala Harris's illegal alien policies and tell me that these are stories made up by politicians.

1:54.8

Okay, let's just establish no villages are being attacked by migrants. And yes, politicians like them, are making things up

2:02.1

about Springfield, Ohio. But Trump wants things like that to be the focus right now. That's what

2:08.0

he wants everyone talking about. And I know that may completely bend your mind. It bends mine.

2:13.2

I mean, why on earth would a presidential candidate want to draw attention to is xenophobia,

2:17.6

racism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny?

2:21.2

Well, of course, Trump is not a normal candidate.

2:23.5

We've known that for a while.

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